Objectives & challenges:
One of the biggest challenges in agriculture today is the use of heterogeneous data for smart farming technologies, improving soil fertility, food quality, and reducing the impact of agricultural technologies on climate change.
Today, numerous sources of data are collected and not leveraged as much as they could be. Potential applications are huge, such as decision-support tools taking into account not only scientific recommendation but also information about the experience of using various agricultural additives for specific climatic and environmental conditions.
Carbon measurement and estimation are promising applications to improve the existing systems, but also to provide new value streams for the farmers.
Downstream users (post-farm gate) include product manufacturers and retailers, cities and regulatory bodies who have a range of data needs according to their role in the value chain. The impending EU Digital Product Passport will set minimum requirements for information availability for value chains, but do we know what downstream users want, and can we create a framework where they can meet the range of requirements across different country-based regulatory regimes in multiple value chains simultaneously.
Solution:
The idea is a service for the assessment of the carbon footprint of agricultural products in the process of growing as well as tools for sound adjustment of agro-technological, organisational and management decisions by food producers. Thanks to a data sharing ecosystem, we will provide the opportunity for farmers (through data service providers interacting with the decentralised data sharing infrastructure powered by i4Trust Dataspace), to leverage the use of the data they already produce, combined with other data sources such as external and open data (soil data, weather, crop data… depending on the countries and associated open data that differs). It will provide them with tools that will help the farmers to come up with tangible proof of their carbon impact. Also, dedicated stakeholders of the ecosystem will find go-to market opportunities for these proofs, bringing back value for the whole ecosystem.